Employees at Google and AOL are among those going barefoot today to raise awareness of shoeless poor kids. If only there were some other way rich techies could help third world children, aside from disgustingly and dangerously removing their shoes!

"Millions of children around the world grow up without shoes," Huffington Post chief Arianna Huffington says in the video above, "and at risk of disease and infection." Going barefoot, you see, puts you at risk for disease and infection. So AOL and some of Google will go barefoot, to prevent disease and infection. Makes perfect sense, if you don't think about it.

Even more batty is this video on the website of TOMS, the philanthropic shoemaker organizing the "One Day Without Shoes" movement. In between testimonials from Hanson, the Jonas Brothers, Jordin Sparks, Heather Graham, and Demi Moore—all the top minds in third world development, basically—are videos of people exposing their bare feet to the snow, on ladders, while making UPS deliveries and while operating a deep fat fryer.